former congressman, former house majority, joining us now from dallas. isn't that the way they do it in d.c. let's just do something on a temporary basis. should they try to shoot for something better? >> that would be very difficult. it is almost impossible to make a deal got a big deal, with a lame duck president who frankly was not even competent to make such a deal while he thought he had a future in the office. secondly, the one thing i think speaker boehner has his finger on is they probably cannot stop the sequestration on defense spending because after his disastrous debacle in libya, the president cannot afford to be seen in different to defense spending. about all they can hope to do is probably the late that head, for some type of deal, picked up and down the road and wait until after a new president is in fact sworn in. in order to get to the big copperheads if tax reform, spending reduction, spending reform package caught that will take a lot of time and a lot of creative work. [talking over each other] president obama, if he were to survive